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skullgiver , in `pkill -9 -f firefox` won't work, what can be a possible explanation?
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    antihero OP ,

    Yes, I killed the parent process. Also after killing the process with firefox PID, the file equivalent to that process /proc/PID was still there. I think it could be - “likely I/O or driver related” or “stuck in a syscall waiting on some kind of I/O operation that isn’t timing out/is bugged out/can never complete”.

    mim , in Distro hoppers, how do you manage your config files?

    I manage them using git and stow.

    Stow is very useful, but a bit unknown. Hard to explain in a Lemmy post, but basically it helps you manage symlinks between your git repo directory and your $HOME.

    You can “install” and “uninstall” configs by managing the symlinks with stow.

    flyhunter ,

    I do the same plus a python script to automate the stowing. This plus konsave plus a script to install packages and it is a breeze to reinstall the OS

    penis ,

    +1 for stow, it’s so simple yet powerful.

    Machindo ,

    Same but with the addition of a Brewfile to manage installed apps/CLIs (supports both Mac and Linux)

    SillyBanana , in nofi: An interruption-free notification system for Linux

    This really needs a screen recording of it in action.

    cool_pebble OP ,

    Fair point, I’ve updated the readme now.

    MummifiedClient5000 , in `pkill -9 -f firefox` won't work, what can be a possible explanation?

    Did you literally type kill -9 firefox? Because the kill command normally takes PIDs not process names. killall takes process names, but process names are not always straightforward. Under normal circumstances firefox would exit when X/Wayland goes away though.

    Using the sysrq key in the “reverse BUSIER” sequence when your system won’t shutdown/reboot is always better than shutting the power on a running system.

    antihero OP ,

    Sorry, it was a mistake, I fixed the post. Also I tried many other ways to kill that process. Thanks for the BUSIER tip.

    palordrolap , in `pkill -9 -f firefox` won't work, what can be a possible explanation?

    kill takes a process ID (i.e. a number) not a process name. Either find the right PID with ps first or use killall, although be aware that killall does exactly what it says: kills all processes matching the string it is given. If you only want to kill one of several Firefox processes that isn't what you want.

    antihero OP ,

    Sorry my mistake, it was pkill, but we also tried kill with process id, and we also tried killall. Every method that I knew i tried.

    heftig , in `pkill -9 -f firefox` won't work, what can be a possible explanation?
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    Stuck in kernel code, possibly because they tripped an assert. Even if not, if your distribution enabled hung task detection, the kernel will log backtraces for these processes eventually; by default, after 2 minutes of being stuck.

    antihero OP ,

    I knew it was something related to kernel. Now I have some some explanation of if this happens again.

    brain_in_a_jar ,

    You can cat /proc/PID/stack to see what it's wedged on in kernel land.

    I'm guessing maybe something related to the GPU, maybe some kind of driver bug?

    hitagi , in Distro hoppers, how do you manage your config files?

    I used to have a git repo on Github for my dotfiles but I took it down when I realized that there are some config files I don’t want public like my newsboat links or API keys on my ~/.bashrc. Now I just sync it encrypted to some file storage but I may put it on my private git server instead where password-store lives.

    garam , in Should I bother learning Podman?
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    If you are begining in Docker/Podman, you can try take some course from red hat like DO188, if you don’t want fork money, Red Hat with Dan Walsh offer free books developers.redhat.com/e-books/podman-action

    It will be beneficial for us, developer, and Dan Walsh, Brent Baude, are mostly replying in libera.chat. Well you can ask here tho, I think it’s okay.

    I just hope /r/podman in reddit moved here, and being federated…

    Skriptmonkey , in Distro hoppers, how do you manage your config files?

    I’m not as fancy as using git. I have a folder with all my config files, and it’s not a lot, in Nextcloud. When I’m on a new install, I sync my Nextcloud account then create symlinks to the files in the folder. So far no issues. I just keep track of where each simlink needs to go.

    lfromanini , in Distro hoppers, how do you manage your config files?
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    I manage my config files with RCM, this way: fedoramagazine.org/managing-dotfiles-rcm/

    But I use it for share my dotfiles between my home and my work computer. For distro hopping only, I have my /home mounted in a secondary HD, so it’s never formatted.

    For the config files in other paths, I keep a log of everything I changed in Dropbox and then I redo. I admit that this may not be the best solution, but the others works good.

    Retainer8510 ,

    sounds awesome! will try this approach

    beeng , in Does anyone actually like the default GNOME workflow?

    Using vanilla gnome and comparing about empty task bar is a bit strange.

    beeng , in Does anyone actually like the default GNOME workflow?

    Gnome, 2screens, 3 workspaces.

    Heavy user of Dock number shortcuts, as well as keyboard swap workspace shortcuts and window resize/splits.

    Discipline is good for workspace organisation, I know which “space” contains which groups of applications.

    awwsom , in Distro hoppers, how do you manage your config files?
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    i wasn’t able to. Just lut them up on github. but now i have nix so i can just set up flake and git clone. Got my configs.

    awwsom , in nofi: An interruption-free notification system for Linux
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    I am building a new rice on hyprland. I’ll try this one out.

    mundane , in Distro hoppers, how do you manage your config files?

    I keep my files in a repo on gitlab and use yadm to sync them.

    Yadm is a wrapper around git, so you have all the standard git commands plus some extra to work with templating and encryption etc.

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